You never know what the rumour mill will throw up next, and the latest 360 gossip doing the rounds concerns the addition of an HDMI port.

Specifically, the rumours, reported on the blog Opposable Thumbs citing an “insider source”, says that the port is coming to the Core and Premium models in late August or early September.

Well, it’s the first that anyone around here has heard of it and Microsoft has yet to comment to the further reports that it will be a “soft launch”, which is to say the introduction will be done without much publicity.

The report on the blog ties in the HDMI port addition with the new 65nm CPU chips as standard in the consoles … watch this space!